who needs it anyways

Recently, I seem to have lost all self control and will power. Somehow this seems to be working out quite well for me. It's a wonderful thing, really. Stay tuned to see if it kicks me in the ass later...

"this is our decision to live fast and die young,
we've got the vision, now let's have some fun."

ALLEZ LES BLEUS!

Here are a few videos from the France v. Austria game that we went to and WON 4-1! The first video was before the game when the team comes out. The announcer says each player's first name and then the audience yells the last name.






The national anthem? Nooo idea what anyone was saying

Get with it, France.

Those who know me know how much I love Halloween. Sadly, I feel as though my affections have been somewhat squandered due to the fact that France has just not caught on. When you think about, there is no logical reason for the French to NOT celebrate it. I mean, they celebrate All Saint's Day, which is where Halloween originated from. All Saint's Day is on November 1 (the day after Halloween) and it is a day to celebrate the dead. Schools even take a fall break, a week off of school centered around All Saint's Day! Can you imagine if we had an entire week off for Halloween in the States?! Haha!

Anyways, I have been doing a little research and there are definitely some Halloween events happening here in Paris, but yet, the same great Halloween spirit is just not present. But we will survive, and will make the most of this great great holiday.

Happy Halloween!

mmm pumpkin. http://www.davidlebovitz.com/archives/2007/10/halloween_in_pa.html

We are not homeless!

We finally found a place and we moved in last week! We love it here. We are in the 15th and are about a 3 minute walk from the Eiffel tower! We can see it from the front door of our building. I can also walk to school from here which is wonderful. It is soooo nice and we got a really great deal! I am so happy that we found this place.

Our place is pretty unique in the sense that it is technically one BIG studio. We have done a lot of rearranging and have kind of divided up the space so that we have a separate bedroom area. The place only came with one bed though, so we had to go to Ikea to get 2 more. What an adventure. If you have even been to Ikea, you know what an intense excursion it can turn out to be. Multiply that by 100 because of train traveling, language barriers, lack of customer service and SLOW french people. It was insane. We were there ALL day and were completely delerious by the time we made it to the delivery line to have our stuff delivered to Paris.

Luckily, we could have it deliviered the next day. When they called to say they were here I ran out to meet the guy. He was just standing there, staring at me as if he was waiting for me to do something... while I was doing the same thing, waiting for him to start moving our stuff in! The he explained to me that WE have to move it ourselves! They only deliver to the street! I called Kara and she came down and the 2 of us had to move 2 matreses and a bed frame through 4 doors and up 3 flights of strairs, all without getting caught by the apartment housekeeper/cosierge/recycling police/drill sergent becasue we had all the droors proped open which im sure it an illegal apartment act. Needless to say, we somehow got it all to our apartment and then spent most of the day trying to assemble Kara's bed. Shambles! We ended up having to use a power drill which was a really great adventure. Thankfully I learned how to use one in sculpture class last year or else i think we might have killed ourselves.

But now all our beds are set up! My bed is actually just a matress on the floor cuz i was too cheap to buy a frame haha. But it is working out just great so far. I'll take some pictures of the whole set up once we are fully settled in.

Tonight we are going to a French National Team soccer game! ALLEZ LES BLEUS!

NUIT BLANCHE! (a little overdue)

Some overdue pictures from Nuit Blanche. Now that I think about it... we honestly didn't really DO anything... we just wandered around and drank and had a great time! It was just so fun being out all night with everyone else in Paris, who were also doing nothing but wandering around and drinking. Ok wait, I take it back, we did see a tree made out of carpet and watched some dancers on acid.

Startin our day off early. Becca's good friend Lindsey came to visit from Germany for the weekend as well.

Too cool obviously.

At LE STYX! Our favorite restaurant from way back.

GIANT disco ball at Luxembourg gardens, held up by a crane, naturally.

Outside Notre Dame.


Go Kara! A Nuit Blanche highlight for sure.


The night would not be complete without a McFlurry avec daim.



The following pictures were taken by Jenna!

Weasels.


Corks flying through Paris. Typical.




Best picture! Puttin our hands up at Notre Dame/ sacrilege.


I had my eyes on one of those sweet Nuit Blanche books. Luckily Becca found one for me on the street!

chocolate

an email that I got from my mom this morning...



"Hi Emily and Trevor

I have a very important question for you both: Do you prefer milk or dark chocolate? heheheh

Thanks,
Mom"



hahaha!

long time no blog

WHOA I have not updated in so long. I am not even sure what to say. Well, the past 2 weeks have been super busy so I haven't had much time to update. Kara and Jenna got here about 2 weeks ago and we have been keeping ourselves quite busy by looking at apartments and eating every morsel of food that Paris has to offer. The apartment search has been insane. We have just been having really bad luck and have had our little hearts broken over and over again every time a wonderful apartment doesn't work out. This is not an exaggeration... we have literally called hundreds of apartments. We have looked at probably 12-15, and they either won't work for us, are out of our budget, won't accept roommates or someone gets it before us. Its really bizarre actually because because apparently roommates are not a popular thing in France. One real estate agent actually asked us, "so why do you want to live together". We didn't even know how to answer him! It has been so stressful! Just knowing that homelessness is lurking in the near future is enough to make a person crazy. But in the end... we finally found something! I am afraid to actually publish this piece of information for fear that I will jinx it. But this place is great! I'll share more once it is officially ours.

In other news, Becca got here this week! I still haven't acctually seen her, but we have been skyping her almost every night. She is an au pere just outside of Paris, therefore living with the family instead of with us. But we will be seeing her tomorrow for Nuit Blanche!!! Nuit Blanche is this night in Paris where everything stays open all night and everyone runs around the city and does not sleep. Sounds like my kind of night! There is free breakfast the next morning at 7am for those of us who last that long. We have been looking forward to this since we learned of it. Here's the website if you are curious. http://www.nuit-blanche.fr/

School has been good and busy. I got a "new" camera for my photo class. Its a canon SLR 35 mm. Its so sweet! We developed our first rolls today and made contact sheets. In sculpture we have been sculpting our FACES for like 4 weeks. Its so weird. Then we had to make a plaster mold and cast our heads after that. It was a serious stuggle. We were all in the sculpt studio from 8:30 am til 9 pm on thursday, covered in plaster, and still aren't done cuz we still have to make our bodies! Reminds me of the good old days in Ty's sculpt class at Pepp. Oh how I miss it. Painting has been my favorite class so far i think. We have already done 5 paintings and I can already see myself improving so much.

Ok I need to stop now for fear of making a really long and boring post. I promise to put up some pictures later, and give an update on NUIT BLANCHE!